Thanks I'll try that.

I'm very open to other suggestions...

the reason for trying the BCP option, is that it has been a small version of hell working with SSIS and it's flat file connections/managers -

so I was trying to bypass all of that and maintain just my stored procedure where I can very easily specify the fields (cast) and a very simple format file....

whereas, everytime I make a change in the SSIS method I go through hell and back trying to keep it happy and have to have psuedo/meta files in the output directory, and you can't re-oreder the fields, and so on ad-nauseum....

I could have written this in Delphi/C#/etc in 1/4 the time and wondering why I didn't.... so I am assuming I'm just missing out on that "one good suggestion" to convince of the right way 😉